Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change

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This special issue focuses on recent approaches to climate change adaptation, which are community-based and participatory, building on the priorities, knowledge, and capacities of local people. It discusses how community based approaches (CBA) to climate change have emerged, and the similarities and differences between CBA and other participatory development and disaster risk reduction approaches. Read more: Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change : http://www.iied.org/pubs/pdfs/14573IIED.pdf

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